Quotes
Quotes about Sound
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground but holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed in winning the support of their fellow citizens and converting them to the endorsement of policies that bring and preserve prosperity, the cause of mankind and civilization is hopeless. There is no other means to safeguard a propitious development of human affairs than to make the masses of inferior people adopt the ideas of the elite. This has to be achieved by convincing them. It cannot be accomplished by a despotic regime that instead of enlightening the masses beats them into submission. In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.
In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
